How do you expect someone to give you statistics of the people of Moses and how exactly would you judge the information's credibility ?
– user19208Sep 24 '16 at 12:38

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The way any dictum is established in islam, authoritative texts. There are numbers on the age of various people, the number of people who fought in certain battles, the number of angels present at specific occasions or the number of their wings - I don't see how asking for the amount of followers of one of the major prophets would be unreasonable to inquire about.
– G. BachSep 24 '16 at 18:52

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The count of magicians who were brought to face Musa is not exactly known as "Ibn Kathir" in his book "al bedaya wa nehaya" as well as "Al-Suyuti" in his book "Dur al-Manthur" mentioned that there exists several numbers for them as following:

Ibn Abi-Hatem said: 70

kaab Al-Ahbar said: 12,000

Muhammad ibn Ishak said: 15,000

Abi-Amama said: 19,000

Al-Saddi said: somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000

Al-Qassem said: 70,000

Muhammad ibn kaab said: 80,000

For the people who went out of Egypt following Musa, it's mentioned in the book of "Dur al-Manthur" for "Al-Suyuti" that there was as following:

Ibn Abi-Hatem said that Ibn Abbas said: 600,000

Ibn Abi-Hatem said: 620,000 not counting neither young people below 20 years old nor old people above 60 years old

Abd ibn Hmed said: more than 620,000

Several people said that ibn Massoud said: 670,000

Ibn Abi-shaiba and Ibn Gharer said: 670,000

However, it's worth to be mentioned that there's no religious benefit to know either of those counts.

It's also worth mentioning that most of the sources those tellers are telling from are Israeli stories and we as Muslims are told not to confirm or deny such stories if they are not contradicting Islam scriptures.